Just one night after a tough OT loss, the little engines are back... Will the red, blue and white bounce back tonight, making the new look Bobkittens roadkill? Or will new head coach Paul Silas "let the cats out of the bag", catching the Pistons off-guard after a rough throwdown in Motown...

A pretty early writeup for me... gotta meet my production company and visit Tom in the hospital. I'll see y'all later at the PF.com chat.

whatever rotation are used - it does not matter - because it is impossible to predict who is off tonight, who is on.

CV had a bad night vs chicago, today he was good, rip and BG - on, off, on off - impssible to predict who deserves more minutes tonight.

add roster imbalance - totally out of control for coach - it makes things from stability perspective only worse. Q has tried to find minutes to everyone, Q has tried to shorten the roster. Q has benched starters, has promoted bench players - nothing has worked so far.

And save me from "but cood coach, you know..." rant.

what? calls it a season and playes monroe and daye til death?? haha.

there is no "ready for use " solutions. Never has been. That is a huge fanmyth. So prevalent everywhere.

Look at the Hornets, how sad a team could go in a three weeks span where they turn from a 14-7 team to 18-13, won only 4 of 10 games since dated Dec.06 which they were taken-over. Like the Pistons, with so many uncertainty up in there, can't say they are weakened mentally but definitely inconsistent mentality.

I watched Stuckey being pissed off last night - one of the coaches talking to him, trying to get him to buy into him being on the floor standing around while McGrady ran the offense (is how I interpreted the exchange in the 4th quarter with Stuckey). And tonight, while I didn't see a minute of the game, I look at the box score and just want to barf. Stuckey had gawd awful stats - it was as if he was just an afterthought for the team or he didn't give a %%%% or both. (Again that's just an uniformed interpretation by moi).

This movement away from the young talent on the team towards relying on for crap (for this team) veterans like Rip, Tay, - never playing Daye or Summers, taking the ball out of Stuckey's hands, is about as stupid as it gets. No - it's worse than stupid, it's negligent and it's killing our ability to develop a young core group.

Stuckey is getting to the point where he's just going to move on next season. Either he'll never resign with this crappily run team, or this crappily run team will foolishly just let him go. This kid is being handled really badly right now.

I watched Stuckey being pissed off last night - one of the coaches talking to him, trying to get him to buy into him being on the floor standing around while McGrady ran the offense (is how I interpreted the exchange in the 4th quarter with Stuckey). And tonight, while I didn't see a minute of the game, I look at the box score and just want to barf. Stuckey had gawd awful stats - it was as if he was just an afterthought for the team or he didn't give a %%%% or both. (Again that's just an uniformed interpretation by moi).

This movement away from the young talent on the team towards relying on for crap (for this team) veterans like Rip, Tay, - never playing Daye or Summers, taking the ball out of Stuckey's hands, is about as stupid as it gets. No - it's worse than stupid, it's negligent and it's killing our ability to develop a young core group.

Stuckey is getting to the point where he's just going to move on next season. Either he'll never resign with this crappily run team, or this crappily run team will foolishly just let him go. This kid is being handled really badly right now.

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Stuckey has to grow balls. he wanted leadership, keys were handed to him at the start of the season and....he whines???

Stuckey has to grow balls. he wanted leadership, keys were handed to him at the start of the season and....he whines???

as for playing summers and daye - earn your minutes.

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If Rondo can take leadership with 3 hall of famers on his starting unit then Stuckey should be able to take leadership with one potential hall of famer on our starting unit (big ben if he is lucky). I hope we don't resign him. He is not the answer and is taking minutes from those who might have potential to be that guy. Bynum isn't the answer either but I don't want Stuckey taking shots that Daye, JJ, Gordon, CV, and Summers could be taking. Moving on.

If Rondo can take leadership with 3 hall of famers on his starting unit then Stuckey should be able to take leadership with one potential hall of famer on our starting unit (big ben if he is lucky). I hope we don't resign him. He is not the answer and is taking minutes from those who might have potential to be that guy. Bynum isn't the answer either but I don't want Stuckey taking shots that Daye, JJ, Gordon, CV, and Summers could be taking. Moving on.

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from where should Pistons look for possible replacement for stuckey? Try lady luck with 2nd round draft? ( high 1st round pick is reserved for big man, I'm sure)

trades? nobody wants to give away young PGs unless they get something back ( a hint -not veteran players)

Ok there is a chance that somebody is unsatisfied with his role in team ( eg Kyle lowry demands a trade) but do not count on it.

I'm sure we do not see contract extnsion talk with stuckey before new CBA.

People like to have star players grow on their porch for them to pick.
If Stuckey's disappointed lots of fans, blame Joe who set Sandbag Stuckey on this hot seat without looking into his crystal ball beforehand, oh my bad, crystal basketball.
Would someone please teach me what does "chattel principle" mean ?

Pistons are closing in on the 6th pick. At least, CV looks like a keeper. That is the good news.

The Pistons can either draft a good big or get a franchise player, regardless of position, maybe a top guard and trade away current players to make a fit. If it is the latter scenario, then the Stuckey experiment would be curtailed.

The trick is to trade Tay and Rip, without getting better too quickly and then lose draft position.

I watched Stuckey being pissed off last night - one of the coaches talking to him, trying to get him to buy into him being on the floor standing around while McGrady ran the offense (is how I interpreted the exchange in the 4th quarter with Stuckey).

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WRONG! Darryl Walker was yelling at him to go GET THE BALL, YOU'RE THE POINT GUARD!!!

Yet, you form an opinion on what happened in the game, an opinion that lays all the blame at the feet of everyone except Rodney Stuckey.

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I look at the box score and just want to barf. Stuckey had gawd awful stats - it was as if he was just an afterthought for the team or he didn't give a %%%% or both. (Again that's just an uniformed interpretation by moi).

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His stats are a reflection on how badly he played last night. He stunk up the joint, to be fair so did Gordon, Wallace and Maxiel.

This movement away from the young talent on the team towards relying on for crap (for this team) veterans like Rip, Tay, - never playing Daye or Summers, taking the ball out of Stuckey's hands, is about as stupid as it gets. No - it's worse than stupid, it's negligent and it's killing our ability to develop a young core group.

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I want the young guys to play and get experience too, but they haven't done the things necessary to beat a vet out for playing time, and that troubles me, AUstin Daye couldn't beat out a crippled T-Mac earlier this season???? Our guys are just future role players, they're not stars who are going to lead us into the playoffs one day.

Stuckey is getting to the point where he's just going to move on next season. Either he'll never resign with this crappily run team, or this crappily run team will foolishly just let him go. This kid is being handled really badly right now.

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No he isn't. The only way he is being handled badly is because he's our starting PG when he should be coming off the bench. He's a combo guard who will ALWAYS put up decent numbers on bad teams. TRADE HIM NOW! because I sure as heck wouldn't offer him the $45-$50 million contract extension his agent is going to be seeking.

1. There is no franchise PF/C coming out in this years draft. The best big man is probably Jared Sullinger of Ohio STate and he's about 6'8".

2. The best PG, Kyrie Irving of Duke is still out with an injured toe and may miss the rest of the season, so he might stay at Duke for his sophomore season as a result.

3. We gotta trade Rodney Stuckey, no way I'd extend this guy for the kind of money he's going to be asking for as the team leader in PPG and ast's per game. Send him packing for a pick, or package him with Rip or Gordon and get some Capp Spayce. I 'm not sure that Ben Gordon will ever fit in here and be able to play up to his potential even if we trade Rip, not to mention him being an undersized SG makes finding a back court mate for him difficult.